# Lehre und Wehre_St. Louis Missouri_August 1863_S229
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Theological Axioms. 229

62. Sicut non recte habent, qui ab unitate recedunt, sed tamen habent,
et ideo redeunti non redditur: sic etiam non recte dat, qui ab unitate recedit, sed tamen dat, et ideo, qui ab eo accipit, venienti ad unitatem nou iteratur. (Augustinus.)

As those who withdraw from unity do not do rightly, yet still have it, and therefore it is not given back again to the one who returns: so likewise he who withdraws from unity does not give rightly, but he does still give, and therefore no repetition takes place for the one who received from him, when he comes to unity.

63. Si dicimus, ordinationem sacerdotum papisticorum vitiari quidem,
sed non irritam reddi per additum mandatum sacrificandi pro vivis et mortuis, id semper intelligendum est cum conditione: dummodo potestas docendi verbum Dei et administrandi sacramenta praecipue conferatur ordinandis; deficiente enim hac conditione, ordinatio non solum vitiosa, verum etiam irrita est. (Huelsemannus.)

When we say that the ordination of popish priests is indeed tainted, but not rendered invalid by the added charge to sacrifice for the living and the dead, this is always to be understood with the condition: provided that the power to teach God's Word and to administer the sacraments is chiefly conferred on those being ordained; for when this condition is lacking, the ordination is not only tainted, but also invalid.

64. Deficiente vocatione, locum nondum habere potest ordinatio.
(Balduin.)

When the call is lacking, ordination cannot yet take place.

65. Cathedra non facit sacerdotem, sed sacerdos cathedram. (Chrysostomus.)

Not the pulpit makes the priest, but the priest the pulpit.

66. Munus ecclesiasticum ordinarie perpetuum est, quia libere ac
licite extra casum necessitatis nec a vocato deponi, nec a vocante per modum contractus ad certos annos aut cum reservatione facultatis dimittendi libere vocatum, conferri potest. (Kromayer.)

The office of the church holds ordinarily for a person's whole life, because — outside a case of necessity — it can neither rightfully and freely be laid down by the one called, nor conferred by the one calling by way of a contract for a certain number of years or with a reservation of the power to freely dismiss the one called.

67. Nec vocans, nec vocandus vocationem ad certos annos pro divina
habere potest. (Kromayer.)

Neither the one calling nor the one to be called can hold a call for a fixed number of years to be a divine one.